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How to use unstressed in a sentence
Initial h before unstressed vowels is only pronounced when preceded by a pause.
THE SOUNDS OF SPOKEN ENGLISHWALTER RIPPMANNBegan: notice the quality of the vowel in the first, unstressed syllable of this word.
THE SOUNDS OF SPOKEN ENGLISHWALTER RIPPMANNYou use more force for the stressed than for the unstressed vowels, that is to say, you put more breath into them.
THE SOUNDS OF SPOKEN ENGLISHWALTER RIPPMANNThe monotony of a series of stressed or of unstressed sounds would be unbearable.
DIVISION OF WORDSFREDERICK W. HAMILTONHere the assonance is -er (final unstressed -er in standard present-day English represents vocalic r).
MODERN SPANISH LYRICSVARIOUSThe initial unstressed syllable of the first hemistich is lacking in approximately one-third of the lines of the Laberinto.
MODERN SPANISH LYRICSVARIOUSUnstressed, un-strest′, adj. not pronounced with stress, unaccented.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 4 OF 4: S-Z AND SUPPLEMENTS)VARIOUSAnapestic verse consists of a regular recurrence of two unstressed syllables preceding a stressed syllable, — — /.
LEGENDS, TALES AND POEMSGUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUERThe guttural nasal disappeared in an unstressed syllable when preceded by an n in a stressed syllable in the course of the OHG.
A MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN PRIMERJOSEPH WRIGHTSo far attention has been confined to the stressed syllables, around which the unstressed syllables are grouped.
FOURTEENTH CENTURY VERSE & PROSEVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO UNSTRESSED
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